The Television Academy creates a platform for debate on intellectual property

This institution aims to promote a dialogue between all the actors involved to bring together positions that will be taken into account in a future “Sinde Law”. Santos Castro Fernández, director of Cultural Policies and Industries of the Ministry of Culture, was present at the first working meeting.

The Academy of Television Sciences and Arts held a professional meeting on copyright in the audiovisual sector this Monday at its headquarters and announced the creation of a debate platform on intellectual property within the Institution to bring together positions that will be taken into account in a future "Sinde Law."

Manuel Campo Vidal, president of the Television Academy, offered the Institution as a “meeting point for the different actors who are in the intellectual property debate in Spain.” Likewise, he announced the creation of a commission that will periodically promote meetings with the parties involved and whose spokespersons will be Fernando Navarrete, first vice president, and Carlos Martín, member of the Board of Directors.

For the president of the Television Academy, the voice of the audiovisual sector must be heard in the making of decisions that affect the sector: "The Television Academy is the best meeting point to debate and be part of the dialogue with the different political parties. Those of us who are in the audiovisual sector also have something to say. The television business is a very long chain of trades and everyone must be respected and their rights recognized." “It is necessary to make the voice of the audiovisual industry heard in this refoundation of the industrial system that we are experiencing,” he assured.

This first working meeting included the participation of Santos Castro Fernández, director of Cultural Policies and Industries of the Ministry of Culture, who thanked that the Academy joined the debate and that it was done "from dialogue with the parties and not in a visceral way." Academics and representatives of groups such as Internet users, scriptwriters and journalists, as well as representatives of different television stations, production companies, rights management entities and legal departments of companies in the audiovisual sector, also participated in the professional meeting.